On 6/15/2010 11:03 PM, adidas wrote:
I agree with you completely. Some more things that need to be done are: Not able to play videos and movies in the name of proprietary software and Not able to video/audio chat using yahoo,gtalk and skype are also some user related functionality that need to be done apart from recognising network/internet settings automatically and recognizing ntfs,fat32 partitions automatically, etc. It is better if miro and vlc players are available for opensolaris.
Honestly, no. As I've said before, *I* (and many others here) think that spending effort to make OpenSolaris more like Linux and Windows is a grave mistake. If these features come for free (say by simply recompiling work done for Linux/*BSD), then that's great. But making OpenSolaris more like a consumer-oriented desktop OS is a horrible idea. That's not what it's strength is, and spending effort on this kind of stuff is detrimental to OpenSolaris as a whole.
Especially these days: if you need that functionality, run VirtualBox with Windows or Linux inside it.
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